Tebow as a conqueror.

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At 16, he entered his first professional contest and attracted a reputation as a fearless conqueror of big mountains.

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But who knows what the world would look like today if our hero had become known as William the Whiner instead of William the Conqueror?

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The Serbian looked a weary figure in his second match in London on Wednesday as he lost to Murray's opening conqueror David Ferrer in straight sets.

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Started by Mehmet the Conqueror, they were expanded by a succession of sultans who were as interested in philosophy and the arts as they were in conquest and concubines.

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Despite his lasting association with the director, Mr. von Sydow's one previous Oscar nomination was not for a role in a Bergman picture but rather for another Swedish-language part, that of Lassefar in Bille August's "Pelle the Conqueror" (1987), which won an Academy Award for best foreign film as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

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